<P><B>The Void
<P>By Lawrence
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<P>It has arrived,
<P>The sun shall no longer rise,
<P>Nor the tides sweep out to sea.
<P>I gaze about me at the barren plain,
<P>And it is clear life surrendered long ago.
<P>Overhead a star flickers, and vanishes,
<P>And then another,
<P>And another.
<P>Quicker now the stars begin to fade,
<P>Blackness sweeps slowly from zenith to horizon,
<P>Oozing across the celestial temple.
<P>Darkness cloaks the heavens.
<P>Staring into the void, I can only wonder,
<P>What happens now?